Mr. FightToFIRE

What a quarter! The third quarter of 2019 finished almost two weeks ago now. I’m not exaggerating when I say this was a life-changing period for me. Two major changes took place: I moved out and live with my girlfriend, and I signed the sales contract (AKA “compromise”) for my very own apartment in the center of Brussels. These decisions had a huge impact on my net worth for several reasons. From cash to asset The purchase created the biggest impact. I had the 17,625 EUR moved from my cash account (10,000 savings + 7,625 checking) to an illiquid asset, my apartment. More importantly, 100,000 EUR of ~ 420K cost is covered by an inheritance. I will of course not get this as cash but it will directly pay a part of the apartment. As it is part of my assets, it’s part of my net worth. While a positive effect on my net worth, the other side is that I still have to finance roughly 280K (420K - 100K - 40K (20K in projected future savings) ~280K). This will happen through a mortgage which I’m in the process of getting. This in theory will push me well into negative net worth. To keep things clear, I will have the mortgage and the inheritance as a separate part of my quarterly overviews. My first home A second reason that caused a shift in my net worth is moving out of my parents’ home and living at my own rental apartment together with my girlfriend. Before we could move into our own place, we had to transfer 3 months of rent or 1835 EUR, into a dedicated and locked savings account. I will get the money (+ interest back) once we move out. The impact With all of that said, I can look at a net worth growth of 8.75% this quarter. To be clear, this includes deposits but not my debit account. Quarter Amount (€) QoQ (%) QoQ (€) 18Q3 50,251.59 18Q4 56,811.63 +13.054 +6,560.04 19Q1 65,722.80 +15.68 +8,911.18 19Q2 76,618.85 +16.58 +10,896.05 19Q3 83,709.46 +9.25 +7,090.61 USD rate used: 1 USD 0.9112 EURThe recovery continued this quarter so my portfolio reached 8.97% which is solid increase of 7.69%. I now have a total personal portfolio of 27,225.03 EUR (incl. cash). This is all thanks to the nice recovery the market made, especially my euro stocks and mainly my ETF's over the last three months and some dividends. The cash I have left is 83.64 EUR. Symbol Description.5 Sector Quantity Close Price Cost Basis Current Value Unrealized Profit/Loss % Gain/Loss Total 21,658.70 23,825.57 2166.87 10.00 AED AEDIFICA Real estate 22 106,20 1,676.74 2,336.40 659.66 39.34 AED.DIV AEDIFICA - unlisted coupon Real estate 20 2.38 46.77 47.60 0.83 1.77 COFB COFINIMMO Financials 10 129.20 1,131.10 1,292.00 160.90 14.22 CSEMUS ISHARES MSCI EMU SML-C ACC ETF Broad 3 198.70 606.78 596.10 -10.68 -1.76 SXR1 ISHARES CORE MSCI PACIF X-JP ETF Broad 10 135.86 1,173.47 1,358.60 185.13 15.77 DX2J X MSCI EUROPE SMALL CAP ETF Broad 20 43.39 861.98 867.80 5.81 0.68 CSSX5E ISHARES CORE EURO STOXX 50 ETF Broad 3 114.84 311.57 344.52 32.95 10.57 HOMI HOME INVEST BELGIUM Financials 8 116.50 702.83 932.0 229.17 32.60 IUS3 ISHARES S&P SMALL CAP 600 Broad 40 57.82 2,268.46 2,312.80 44.34 1.95 KIN KINEPOLIS Consumer Cyclicals 25 56.40 1,356.70 1,410.00 53.31 7.15 RBOT ISHARES AUTOMATION&ROBOTIC-A ETF Broad 157 6.93 1,014.48 1,087.85 73.37 7.23 SBIO INVESCO NASDAQ BIOTECH ETF Broad 30 29.09 923.30 872.85 -50.45 -5.46 SOF SOFINA Diversified 5 204.00 732.53 1,020.00 287.47 39.24 SPYD SPDR US dividend aristocrats Broad 43 51.90 2042.13 2,231.70 189.57 9.28 SXR8 Ishares Core S&P500 UCITS Broad 14 270.00 3,366.92 3,780.00 413.08 12.27 UBI UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT Technology 11 66.34 990.41 729.74 -260.67 -26.32 XLVS Source HLTH care S&P US SECT Broad 7 372.23 2,452.53 2605.61 153.08 6.24 The below table contains my stocks denominated in USD. Since the currency rate fluctuates daily, it impacts the total portfolio wealth counter. To keep it simple I will use the rate applicable at the time of writing every quarter (give or take a day). You can find the rate used at the top of this page. Unfortunately, unlike my euro stocks this quarter, my dollar-based stocks actually got worse. Coming from -5,32% I made a small decline to -11.27%. In other words I lost -11.27 - (-5.32) 5,95%. Symbol Description Sector Quantity Close Price Cost Basis Current Value Unrealized Profit/Loss % Gain/Loss Total 4073.19 3613.93 -459.26 -11.275 BABA Alibaba Group Holding Communications 5 167.23 832.89 836.16 3.26 0.39 CSKR ISHARES MSCI KOREA USD ACC Broad 5 136.76 887.58 683.80 -203.78 -22.95 IBB ISHARES NASDAQ BIOTECHNOLOGY Broad 5 99.50 518.34 497.50 -20.84 -4.02 IEMA ISHARES MSCI Emerging Markets ACC Broad 28 32.15 1030.58 900.20 -130.38 -12.65 NVDA NVIDIA CORP Technology 4 176.07 803.81 696.28 -107.53 -13.37 The Beobank managed funds keeps growing at a steady pace though it has showed a more flat curve the last month. The previous return was 13.09% which has grown to 15.29%. I got a small 2.02% gain this quarter. Nr. Inception date Description Current Value Cost Basis Unrealized Profit/Loss % Gain/Loss 1 September 2016 Actively managed fund 22,572.81 19,578.97 2,993.84‬ 15.29 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 with my other portfolios, the pension fund recovered/grew as well. From a 6.62% to 7.63%. In other words, a growth of 7.63 - 6.62 1.01%. Nr. Inception date Description Sector Current Value Cost Basis Unrealized Profit/Loss % Gain/Loss 1 September 2013 Dynamic pension savings fund Broad 7316.96 6797.82 519.14 7.63 I call them investments but they are more like speculative positions. This is with good reason. This quarter these riskful investments got hammered once again. Especially my forex account lost about half it's value. Because of this and from all the years I've been going at it, I decided to call it quits (for now). I took this as a calculated risk (especially the cryptocurrency one) expecting to reap the benefits in the longer term but as it's just not going anywhere I decided to put my focus elsewhere. I will withdraw my forex account and put it as cash for now. Nr. Inception Date Description Final Value Cost Basis % Gain/Loss 1 January 2016 Actively managed forex account 0 (-4457.00) 13825.15 -67.76 My crypto wallet dropped once again. The profit made last quarter is gone again and back is the red. Nr. Inception date Coin Cost Basis Current Value % Gain/Loss 480.15 212.03 -55.84 1 March 2018 Bitcoin 123.09 116.75 -5.15 2 March 2018 Litecoin 357.06 95.28 -73.31 The big change here is of course the move of the 10,000 EUR to my checking account. I merged this together with ~7K that was already on it. This then got transfered the promotor as a 5% deposit. I now have only 2,510.99 EUR as an emergency fund. I'd like to top this up again once I signed the mortgage contract this or next month. Nr. Inception date Description Deposits Current Value % Gain Interest Rate 4,335.00 4,345.99 0,253 1 July 2018 Regulated limited high(er) interest savings account 2,500 2,510.99 0.4396 0.20% (base rate) + 1% (fidelity premium) 2 August 2019 Regulated Deposit account 1,835.00 1,835.00 0.00 0.01% (base rate) + 0.1% (fidelity premium) 3 January 2019 Regulated high savings account 0 (-10,000.00) 0.00 0.00 0.05 % (base rate) + 0.80 % (fidelity premium) I have finally started on my real estate adventure thanks to the purchase of my first apartment. I already put down the first amount of 17,625 EUR which goes straight towards to proprety. As such I will count this as part of my net worth. As I pay of my mortgage this amount will grow as per the payment plan. Of course I will seperate the interest due and the money that actually goes into the property aka the principal. The principal is what will get added to my net worth. As you can see in the table below I actually already "earned" 500 EUR because the promotor gave 500 EUR if I signed an option contract of 24 hours. Nr. Inception date Description Deposits Current Value % Gain 17,125.00 17,625.00 2,92 1 28 June 2019 Real estate property Brussels apartment 17,125.00 17,625.00 2,92 Average Savings Rate Target My SR over the last three months was not what you can consider stellar. It wasn't horrible but definitly a far cry from my guestimated 75% average SR for 2019. After 9 months I have at XX,XX1%. Dividend Payout Thanks to the extra shares I got in the first half of this year I got XX.XX EUR in dividends. I'm now XX.XX% removed from my target which is 200 EUR by the end of 2019.

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